The Google Pixel 9 Professional has a number of key upgrades over the outdated Pixel 8 that earn it its “professional” moniker and likewise justify the value premium over the Pixel 9. Amongst them is an upgraded LTPO show panel – or it ought to have been, anyway. It seems that you need to learn the positive print.
The Pixel 9 Professional and even the Pixel 9 Professional XL could not have LTPO shows in India, Malaysia and Singapore. In these areas they’ve Actua Shows as a substitute of the Tremendous Actua Shows which are used on items offered in the remainder of the world. Observe that Actua and Tremendous Actua tech is about show brightness somewhat than refresh fee, nevertheless it nonetheless exhibits that completely different panels are used. That’s unusual for the reason that Pixel 8 Professional (the massive telephone that’s the predecessor of the 9 Professional XL) already had an LTPO panel.
This will not be 100% correct because the specs do listing “1280 x 2856 LTPO OLED at 495 PPI” and “1344 x 2992 LTPO OLED at 486 PPI” for the Pixel 9 Professional and 9 Professional XL, respectively. The net shops even say “Tremendous Actua Shows”. Nonetheless, Google has to clear issues up and provides a sure sure or no.
Anyway, there’s extra – Pixel 9 telephones offered in India don’t help Wi-Fi 7, however telephones offered anyplace else (together with Malaysia and Singapore) do. This contains the 2 Professional fashions and the vanilla Pixel 9.
What concerning the Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold? That has an LTPO inside show and a daily Actua cowl show in every single place. However the Wi-Fi scenario is murky. The Indian mannequin is listed as supporting “Wi-Fi 7 (802.11ax)”. Wi-Fi 7 is 802.11be, ax is Wi-Fi 6, in order that’s a typo. This error is current in each the specs listed by the web retailer and on the Google help web page. However is the “7” the typo or is it the “ax”? Contemplating that its siblings don’t have Wi-Fi 7, we predict the Fold doesn’t both.
We must always notice that India’s wi-fi company nonetheless hasn’t okayed using the 6GHz band. That mentioned, Wi-Fi 7 has enhancements that additionally operate within the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, so there’s no purpose to drop help, whether or not or not the telephones ever get to make use of the 6GHz band.
One other factor we seen is that Google VPN, which is free for Pixel 9 customers, isn’t accessible within the following international locations: Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia and Slovenia.
There are a couple of different variations, however they’re the same old regional variations. For instance, completely different areas use completely different 5G bands (sub-6GHz and mmWave), Pixels in Japan help FeliCa and so forth. The opposite variations are more durable to elucidate, nevertheless.
